Paul Caps
» Transgendered
From a profile of Australia’s legendary female impersonator:
In retrospect, drag was an obvious move for Capsis, who says he’s been repeatedly mistaken for a woman throughout his life. His high voice and cascading brown hair may have won him a big following as a drag queen, but were less appreciated at his Sydney boys’ school, where he was bullied mercilessly. “It was incredibly savage,” he says, admitting that his fellow pupils picked up on his homosexuality long before he did. “I was a bit innocent and naive. I didn’t know anything about sexuality, I was just this little, feminine boy.”
To avoid the daily taunts and bashings he used to hide in the art room at school during recess, reading books and looking at pictures of Janis Joplin. “When I got home from school I’d stare at my face in the mirror for hours, looking and looking, trying to understand what it was that people hated so much,” he says. “But I never tried to change and never really conformed. I guess I didn’t know how.”
The whole profile: Diva channelling
